From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: What the fools believe. (was Re: The Harris Ranch Tesla Supercharger
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2024 15:12:42 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
This all started when one fool posted a link to this image:
<https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GREBCFKXMAEXOdx?format=jpg&name=small>
Which, based on the dates, I'm guessing he got from here:
<https://x.com/BigJoeBastardi/status/1805987370136678888>
But regardless, when one looks at the actual article from which the
image of the Harris Ranch Supercharger station came:
<https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/09/30/largest-ev-charging-station-in-the-world-uses-diesel-powered-generators/#>
...which was published on September 30, 2023...
...we discover that that so-called "news" organization used an image of
the station that they got from Shutterstock---seriously; just look at
the attribution of the image: "Aerial photo of supercharger Tesla
station at the Harris Ranch in California. (Shutterstock)"...
<https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/november-5-2022-aerial-photo-supercharger-2259716671>
...which reveals that the image was taken almost a YEAR before their
article was published...
...and a quick look at Google Maps shows what the station looked like
less than one month after the article was published...
<https://www.google.com/maps/@36.2543908,-120.2400237,3a,41.8y,189.36h,84.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6V1qIT5-cDvoMITxYwyy6Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu>
...(yes, yes: the bottom says "© 2024 Airbus", but a quick check in
Google Earth Pro gives the precise image date as "10/23/2023"...
...and what do we see: solar panels!
And not only solar panels:
<https://www.google.com/maps/@36.2543908,-120.2400237,3a,41.8y,189.36h,84.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6V1qIT5-cDvoMITxYwyy6Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu>
Batteries!
And BTW, that image is from July of 2023, and it clearly shows the solar
panel canopy under construction.
So why didn't the so-called "news" site check?
This whole thing was based on one reporter seeing a temporary
Superchargr installation located in the lot to the immediate south of
the building immediately to the right of the large gravel lot:
<https://www.google.com/maps/@36.2543908,-120.2400237,3a,41.8y,189.36h,84.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6V1qIT5-cDvoMITxYwyy6Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu>
Don't believe me? Well compare this:
<https://www.google.com/maps/@36.2543908,-120.2400237,3a,41.8y,189.36h,84.36t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1s6V1qIT5-cDvoMITxYwyy6Q!2e0!7i16384!8i8192?coh=205409&entry=ttu>
(Taken in May 2016)
With the video source of the image provided by you fools:
<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU4z1Jeyq2g>
It was a Tesla battery swap pilot program that for one brief period
during 2015 used a portable generator to handle overflow.
There remains no evidence at all that it now houses a diesel generator
or ever did.